Adding Signed Numbers: Adding More Than Two Signed Numbers
This clip explains that the best way to proceed when adding more than two signed numbers is to add all the positive addends and all the negative addends separately, then add the resulting sums.
Adding Signed Numbers: Practical Problems: Temperature and Distance
This clip provides two short exercises, one dealing with temperature changes, the other with changes in direction, to illustrate how to solve practical problems involving the addition of signed numbers.
Adding Signed Numbers: Using Parentheses in Adding Signed Numbers
This clip explains the use of parentheses to eliminate the confusion that might arise if two signs are written next to each other, as when adding a negative number. The clip notes that we don't run into this problem with positive numbers, because in...
Adding Signed Numbers: Summary: Adding Signed Numbers
This clip summarizes how to add signed numbers. It reviews two important rules, one pertaining to addition when the addends have the same sign, the other to addition when the addends have different signs. The clip also revisits the addition of 3 or ...
Adding Signed Numbers: Exercise in Adding Signed Numbers
This clip provides exercises to help students better understand how to add signed numbers. It references two rules, one of which is utilized when the signs are the same, the other of which applies when the signs are different.
Adding Signed Numbers: Adding Numbers With Different Signs
This clip explains the rule for adding numbers with different signs. "Subtract the absolute value of the addends to get the absolute value of the answer," the clip advises. "As for the sign of the answer, it's the same as the sign of the addend with...
Adding Signed Numbers: Adding Two or More Numbers With the Same Sign
This clip explains that when adding two or more numbers with the same sign, to get the absolute value of the answer, we add the absolute value of the addends. "As for the sign of the answer," the clip continues, "
it's the same as the sign of the a...
Adding Signed Numbers: Pairs of Numbers Whose Sum is Zero
This clip explains that any time we add 2 numbers with the same absolute value, but opposite signs, their sum will be zero.
Adding Signed Numbers: Adding Negative Numbers
This clip explains the rule for adding two negative numbers: to get the absolute value of the answer, add the absolute values of the addends. "As for the sign of the answer," the clip continues, "
it's the same as the sign of the addends."
Adding Signed Numbers: Adding Positive Numbers
This clip explains the rule for adding positive numbers: to get the absolute value of the answer, add the absolute values of the addends. "As for the sign," the clip continues, "
it will be positive
same as the two addends."